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[lordoftheringsmusical]

Laurence Boxhall tells Esther Lukins about his personal connection to Gollum, the challenges that being part of The Lord of the Rings: A Musical Tale poses for him, who usually acts in plays and on TV, and what goes into his process of becoming Gollum onstage.

Shared by Esther Lukins via Instagram stories on 6 December 2024.

[lamurdiparasian]

Please Join us for UNT Studio Art's Full Circle event

FULL CIRCLE / SPRING 2019 APRIL 11, 2019 5-8pm UNT College of Visual Arts and Design 1201 W. Mulberry Street Full Circle provides UNT Department of Studio Art seniors and advanced students the opportunity to reflect and present the culmination of their creative practice, research and innovation. The works in this group of exhibitions on view throughout the College of Visual Arts and Design building will display a breadth of media strategies and themes in the pursuit of new art and new ideas. The evening will feature works that explore installation, painting, drawing, printmaking, performance, photography, metals and jewelry, new media art, sculpture, fibers, and hybrids of every sort, the event celebrates our talented students. Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/387121511871986/ Free and open to the public. Questions: studio@unt.edu Participating Students: Maria Aleisa | Noor Almayahi | Cassie Alonzo | Juan Alonzo | Carlos Alvarez | Jimmy Arca | Nicole Auker | Rage Beattie | Taylor Becknauld | Alex Beeson | Claire Behan | Anthony Bettinger | Angeline Bissey | Rebecca Bosque | Thomas Bowman | Elle Brittin | Lauren Broussard | Alex C Bush | Chris Calder | Marina Cano | Sarah Carlile | Dharma Casey | Jayne Clark | Evaughn Coleman | Mathew Cooke | Emily Joy Curl | Juan Cruz | Julianne Dao | Amber Darden | Payton Davis | Lauren Dennis | Jeremy Diamond | Mason Dimock | Madeline Doud | Della Durham | Emily Ely | Hayeong Eun | Bre Ferrara | Mariana Flores | Jaime Flores | Savannah Freeze | Lexee Garcia | Giovanna Coronado | Mary Grayson | Jade Grijalva-Lujan | Dalia Guerrera | Helena Haddox | Brittney Hampton | Mandy Hanson | Alyssa Hart | Brian Hauser | Raquel Hernandez | Elizabeth Hill | Miranda Hogan | Tate Hollingsworth | Allester Hurtado | Hudson Ingram | Faith Johnson | Remmie Johnson | Tucker S Jones | Bradley Kendrick | Esther Kim | Haileigh King | Jaelyn F Kotzur | Bek Krus | William Lane | Emma Lassiter | Jackie Lawrence | Diana Leal | Anna Lee | Ashley Leon | Jenaveve Lester | Austin David Lewis | Christiana Lovfald | Hannah Luke | Angelina Lukins | Alexandra Martinez | Given McClure | Dana McCurdy | Madolyn McPhail | Mimi Medrano | Ashley Mia | Kesleigh Middleton | Eduardo Miranda | Eric Moore | Adrian Munoz | Christina Nassar | Myranda Newman-Noah | Ezra Nguyen | Sarah Nixson | Riley Norris | Ross Ocampo | Samantha O'Neill | Alysia Ortega | Grace Otten | Hannah Ottinger | Michael Parks | Katie Patzke | Kelly Yohana Perez | Michaela Perry | Gebrill Pierce | Alyssa Pizaña | Kathryn Price | Christopher Provencio | Barbara Rabensburg | Andrea Ramos | Mari Renteria | Miranda Roam | Christian Rodriquez | Jan Rogers | Daniel Roman | Diana Rojas-Ponce | Javier Ruiz Navarro | Kara Saba | Michael Schaper | Colby Schwartz | Eva Semrad | Tanner Severson | Christine Smith | Madeline Soileau | Katherine Stiles | Erika Suarez | Lexis Thompson | Susana Urbina | Stephanie Van Den Heuvel | Catherine Vest | Jami Vines | Carson Webster | Adrienne Wells | Aaron Wilson | Michael Wolfry | Madison Wood | Hunter Wright | Bryanna Wright | Kaytlin Codi Wyatt | Jessika Wyre

from UNT Printmaking Blog http://untprintmakingblog.blogspot.com/2019/04/please-join-us-for-unt-studio-arts-full.html UPrintInfo from Blogger http://lamurdis.blogspot.com/2019/04/please-join-us-for-unt-studio-arts-full.html

[tkwc]

The Kids Want Communism Closing and Final Weekend ❤️  ☭

After the closing and final weekend of The Kids Want Communism at MoBY and at Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien (curated by Joshua Simon), we would like to say thank you to everyone who has been involved and supported this project!

TKWC would not have been the same without the participation and collaboration with: Bini Admczak; Toy Boy; Diego Castro; Maya Elran, Efraim Davidi; Tamar Gozansky; Max Epstein; FAMU Prague program curated by Tereza Stejskalová: Nabil Maleh, Piyasiri Gunaratna, Krishma (Krishna) Viswanath, and Nosratollah Karimi; Tal Gafny; Nadya Bakuradze; Michal Helfman; Jacob Blumenfeld; Michael Jones McKean; Jonathan Gold; Nir Harel; Raanan Harlap; Micah Hesse; Ivonne Dippmann and Agnes Friedrich, The Israel Communist Party Archive (MAKI); Nikita Kadan; Jakob Koesten; Mati Lahat; Hila Laviv and Dana Yoeli; Ohad Meromi; Ian Svenonius; Stano Filko; Olaf Nicolai; Tamar Nissim; Ingo Niermann; Angela Dimitrakaki; Jonas Staal; James Bridle; Vincent van Gerven Oei; Irena Haiduk; Kostis Stafylakis; "Notes on Division" (curated by iLiana Fokianaki): Konstantinos Kotsis, Yota Ioannidou, Antonis Pittas, Yorgos Sapountzis, and Vangelis Vlaho; Praxis School archive curated by Vladimir Vidmar; Yuri Primenko; Katya Oicherman; Natalia Kopelanskaya; The New Barbizon: Zoya Cherkassky, Olga Kundina, Anna Lukashevsky, Asya Lukin, and Natalia Zourabova; Nicole Wermers; Noa Yafe; Ekaterina Degot.

It has been amazing to see TKWC evolve and grow together with institutions around the world throughout 2016 and 2017: tranzit, Prague; The Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv; Free/Slow University Warsaw; State of Concept, Athens; Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana; West Space, Melbourne; Marx200; CCA Tel Aviv; The Young Communist League of Israel (BANKI); The Left Bank; SDAJ; ZHdK and Corner College; Northwestern University; Erev Rav; Artis Contemporary; Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin; Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung; Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung - Israel Office; MoBY Museums of Bat Yam.

The Kids Want Communism was organized by iLiana Kokianaki, Vladimir Vidmar, Oleksiy Radynski, Vit Havranek, Patrice Sharkey, Kuba Szreder, and Joshua Simon.

Thank you to everyone who helped make this project happen and kept us going!! Naama Henkin, Meir Tati, Noa Tsaushu, Avi Bohbot, Ofir Finkelstein, Alina Yakirevitch, Nechama Winston, Michal Raz, Nufar Kaplan, Shulamit Bialy, George Choresh, Jonathan Goldstein, Moyu Honda, Ariel Blitz, Rani Rosenheim, Shimon Malka, Moran Paz, Layne Goldman, Jordan Selan, Michelle Paterok, Matthew Turell, Ofri Omer, Yafir Ido, Sassi Mazor, Danielle Kaganov, Yael Meromi, Tamir Davidov, Tali Konas, Tsafrir Cohen, Raffi Gueta, Stephane Bauer, Theres Laux, Esther Tusch, and many others.

We're excited for The Kids Want Communism book which will be published next year!

The book "Communists Anonymous," edited by Joshua Simon and Ingo Niermann, will be published by the end of the year in the Solution Series by Sternberg Press in Berlin. 

We would like to celebrate The Kids Want Communism with a recap of all the events, conversations, exhibitions, and conferences that have taken place in the last two years below. 

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The Museums of Bat Yam — MoBY, Israel:

The Kids Want Communism, Installment One

Also see here

Ekaterina Degot: Shockworkers of the Mobile Image

Also see here

Kuba Szreder: The Political Economy of Art and Beyond

The Kids Want Communism, Installment Two 

Also see here, here and here

Artist Talk: Nir Harel

“The Future Is Ours,” Reunion of The Young Communist League of Israel 

Also see here for stories from the history of The Young Communist League of Israel—BANKI

The 10th Marx Forum in Israel: “Imperialism Then and Now”

As Radical As Reality Itself

See more photos here

The Kids Want Communism, Installment Three / Final Installment 

Also see here, here and here

Artist Talk with Tamar Nissim and Tal Gafny

Artist Talk with Max Epstein and book launch of RESTRooM

2017 Marx Conference: 100 Years after the October Revolution

Finissage and party for the exhibition series The Kids Want Communism and 100 years to the October revolution

The Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, Ukraine:

The Postman always rings twice: Why does history repeat itself? Day 1

The Postman always rings twice: Why does history repeat itself? Day 2

tranzit, Prague, Czech Republic:

First congress of the Union of Soviet Artists/ painting symposium and exhibition

Also see here and here for an interview with the initiators of the First congress of the Union of Soviet Artists in Prague (Artalk magazine, September 6th, 2016)

Škuc gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia:

Nikita Kadan: Above the pedestal the air condenses in a dark cloud

Also see here and here

Free/Slow University Warsaw, Poland:

Summer camp hosted by the Free/Slow University of Warsaw

State of Concept, Athens, Greece:

Solution Communism, a one day symposium organized by iLiana Fokianaki, Ingo Niermann and Joshua Simon 

Also see here for video recordings of some of the talks, panel discussion and Q+A

See  “Assemblism” by artist Jonas Staal, in  e-flux journal issue #80. The text came out of a lecture presented at the conference Solution Communism

West Space, Melbourne, Australia:

The Kids Want Communism at West Space

ZHdK and Corner College, Zürich, Switzerland:

Guest lecture of the Postgraduate Programme in Curating CAS/ MAS ZHdK — Joshua Simon: Verschüttete Traditionen // The Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Communism and The Dividual

Northwestern University, Chicago, USA:

Visiting Artist Lecture, in collaboration with the Graham Foundation: Joshua Simon, The Great Soviet Encyclopedia: Communism and The Dividual

CCA Tel Aviv, Israel:

The second gathering for Solution Communism on April 6, 2017

Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany:

The Kids Want Communism in Berlin, to mark 100 years of the Bolshevik Revolution (also see here and here)

Also see here for an interview published online by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung in Israel with Joshua Simon

Photos from the Vernissage (also see here)

A celebration of 100 years of Soviet Revolution: Lecture & music

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❤️   +  a playlist

[lordoftheringsmusical]

David Cuny tells Esther Lukins about his roles in The Lord of the Rings: A Musical Tale, his favourite moment during rehearsals so far, and his love for LotR.

Shared by Esther Lukins via Instagram stories on 3 December 2024.

[lordoftheringsmusical]

Meet the Australian cast of The Lord of the Rings: A Musical Tale!

The principal cast includes Rarmian Newton (Frodo Baggins), Wern Mak (Samwise Gamgee), Terence Crawford (Gandalf), Rob Mallett (Strider), Jemma Rix (Galadriel), Laurence Boxhall (Gollum), Jeremi Campese (Merry), Hannah Buckley (Pippin), Rohan Campbell (Boromir), Conor Neylon (Legolas), Connor Morel (Gimli), Stefanie Caccamo (Arwen), Andrew Broadbent (Elrond), Ian Stenlake (Saruman) and Ruby Clark (Rosie Cotton).

The ensemble features Georgia Anderson, Gianna Cheung, Cameron Davey, Anthony Garcia, Matt Hourigan, Esther Lukins, Jayme Jo Massoud, James Whiting and Zayneb Zerzouri. The swings are Nicholas Cunningham, Natasha Dumlao, James Frampton, Jonathon Gardner and Patrick Schnur.

Visit lotronstage.com for more info ✨️